Current Events > 2005-2008 was the golden era for the internet...

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I'll never forget the days of:

• Message boards like here on GameFAQs
• Flash games
• MMOs like vanilla WoW
• multiplayer games that never took themselves too seriously like Halo
• Hangouts like Habbo and Gaia Online where you gain currency by socialising and creating your avatar
• YouTube Poop ffs

Those days are long gone. Net Neutrality being abolished in the US and Article 13 in Europe definitely don't help. The overly political and toxic Reddit as well as grandma's Facebook is the only place to hang out. Competitive gaming has become tryhard.

And being hard of hearing myself, I ESPECIALLY dislike that all information and guidance is going to YouTube audio-gated. It really saddens me that soon audio will be more important than text when I can't hear it.

The only positive of the internet these days is Discord, indie games and the variety of porn on the current web. Now its just a cesspool of sweaties and narcissism...

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the golden age of the internet was the internet before walled gardens

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Alisa posted...

Flash games

Phone games provide the same mindless entertainment, just with more ads.

Alisa posted...

MMOs like vanilla WoW

PSO2 is coming to the XBONE. I've never played it, but given its age, it might be just what you're looking for. I'm interested myself actually.

Alisa posted...

Hangouts like Habbo and Gaia Online where you gain currency by socialising and creating your avatar

Aren't those sites still a thing? I'm way past the age demographic for online socializing outside of Discord, light Reddit, and here. But I think those kinds of things still exist in some form.

I'll agree with you that the internet does seem less free and more commercial these days (I still remember when you could see video of in reviews of movies and TV instead of just still images on Youtube), but part of it might just be longing for the good ol' days.

darkmaian23 posted...

Phone games provide the same mindless entertainment, just with more ads.

PSO2 is coming to the XBONE. I've never played it, but given its age, it might be just what you're looking for. I'm interested myself actually.

Can't play PSO2 in my country so no.
Phone games are absolute cancerous garbage besides a select few.


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Smartphones gave all the normies easy quick access to the internet. All downhill after that. Now it's all 99% OF PEOPLE GET THIS QUESTION WRONG and shit like that

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Content creators create content for the sake of creating content.
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MMOs back then had a lot of issues though, and it wasn't just the P2W model.

Nowadays alot of them have died off.

Which is a shame because I think nobody managed to archive those games.

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